Kotarou Shimizu is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building and maintaining production-grade systems. He has been focusing on SRE at freee since 2019 after four years as a software engineer at Internet Initiative Japan, bringing strong operational experience across cloud-native infrastructure and reliability practices. With a master's in software informatics from Iwate Prefectural University, he combines formal academic training with hands-on engineering to bridge development and operations. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, comfortable automating complex workflows and improving service resilience. A Tokyo-based practitioner who has steadily moved from software engineering into SRE, he values measurable improvements in availability and developer productivity.
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